By: Marjorie Kohen
Trump Finds Fellow Bully in Bolton
Nothing Donald Trump has done since his inauguration 14 months ago is more dangerous – to the United States, and indeed, to the world – than his selection of John Bolton for National Security Adviser. It is not surprising the president would feel most comfortable receiving advice from a fellow bully.
Trump bullies people on a nearly daily basis, directing his ire at
immigrants, Muslims, women, LBGTQ people, the poor and the environment. He
hurls Twitter attacks at those who disagree with him.
The president has encouraged police brutality, suggesting in a Long
Island speech that law enforcement officers bang suspects’ heads against police
car doors. “Please don’t be too nice” when arresting people, Trump advised.
“Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head,
you know, the way you put your hand over” their head, “I said, ‘You can take
the hand away, OK?’”
After being told someone might throw tomatoes at him at a campaign
rally, Trump urged his supporters to “knock the crap out of them … I promise
you, I will pay for the legal fees.” He stated on Fox News that a Black
Lives Matter activist who was attacked at a Trump rally “should have been
roughed up.”
